American Promise Announces Bill Moyers Will Be Keynote Speaker at 1st Annual National Citizen Leadership Conference

Washington, D.C. — Bill Moyers, award-winning broadcast journalist, author, former Press Secretary in the Johnson administration, and one of the most astute political commentators of our times will be a keynote speaker at the 1st annual National Citizen Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C.

“I look forward to joining the many Americans coming together at the National Citizen Leadership Conference in their fight to win the 28th Amendment,” Moyers said. “This Amendment will overturn the Supreme Court’s fabrication of special rights for money and corporations, and give us fair elections and equal rights for all Americans in our political system for generations to come.”

Registration is now open for the Conference, which will be hosted at the Renaissance Washington, D.C. Downtown Hotel from September 30 through October 2, 2016. The non-partisan, nonprofit Conference will draw hundreds of people across the country to strategize, connect, deliberate, and build power to win a 28th Amendment to overturn Citizens United so that America is governed by people, not money.

Moyers’ years of insightful commentary and analysis have galvanized Americans to take action to address the crisis of undue influence of concentrated money and large corporations in American democracy. Moyers will discuss how big money and corporate interests have captured Washington creating a government that works for special interest, not the common good, and how Americans around the country are finding new common ground to restore the American Promise — a government of, by, and for the people.

“It is a great honor to have Bill Moyers join cross-partisan 28th amendment leaders in Congress, and leaders from national and state organizations working to win a 28th amendment.” Said Jeff Clements, the President and co-founder of American Promise and the host of the National Citizen Leadership Conference. “We’re thrilled to bring together hundreds of citizen leaders from across the country, across the political spectrum, and across generations to build support for this historic cause.”

“Every generation of Americans has needed to use the Constitutional amendment process to renew the American Promise. Now it’s our turn,” said Clements.

The National Citizen Leadership Conference is sponsored by American Promise, a national, non-partisan, non-profit organization working to win a 28th Amendment to overturn Citizens United v. FEC and secure the political equality of all Americans.

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Since 1776, the American people have worked to fulfill the American promise: human liberty, equal citizenship, government by the people. American Promise is a non-profit organization founded in 2016 to win the 28th Amendment that says
people - not money - govern America.